Author's Notes: Thanks everyone for continuing to hang with me. I appreciate all of your support and I'm glad most of you are enjoying the story! It's nice to be mostly surrounded by fellow Izzie haters, ha! (Now removing my tongue back from my cheek :-))

Real life is being a bit of a bear right now, so I may only be able to update once weekly. I'll try to do more as I can. Especially this week since this chapter is pretty short.

Also, for those Alex lovers out there, this is the last chapter I have planned without him in it.

And for the fellow Jolex obsessed, if you haven't already, check out fuckyeahalexjo on tumblr. Their blog is totally awesome and a great medicine for hiatus fever!

Disclaimer: I'm just having fun with characters that sadly aren't mine.

Jo fumbled with the knot of fabric in her lap as she continued to mutter a string of profanities. Wasn't the whole point of making your own scarf was it was supposed to be fun?

"Knitting, huh?" Jo glanced up at the doorway to see Izzie Stevens smiling at her.

Jo looked at the woman surprisingly, "Ah yeah. One of the nurses taught me to give me something to do. Bedrest is a boring son of a bitch."

Izzie nodded in understanding, "Can I show you something?" At Jo's nod Izzie walked towards the bed to take the material and showed a different technique. "If you angle the left needle this way you'll get tighter designs."

Jo smiled softly as she took the material back, "I can't figure out for the life of me why anyone enjoys this."

Izzie laughed slightly, "Then why are you doing it?"

"Because bedrest is a boring son of a bitch." A playful spark shone in her eyes, "Plus it freaks Alex out when I act domesticated." Jo looked up to see a flash of hurt in Izzie's eyes, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."

Izzie nodded her head quickly in understanding, "I should go. I just wanted to see what the cursing was about."

Jo smiled slightly as she held up the material, "Thanks." Izzie had about made it to the door when Jo called out hurriedly, "I don't blame you."

Izzie turned back quizzically, "I'm sorry, what?"

"For still wanting Alex. I can't blame you for that. I...if the roles were reversed I'd...well to be honest I don't know what I'd do." Jo looked up to Izzie to see her giving a very convincing poker face. "Look all I'm saying is I'm not judging you based on that. I barely made it those ten days he was unconscious, I can't imagine six years without him."

Jo watched as Izzie bit her bottom lip and looked to the wall, "I don't know what I'm feeling."

Jo nodded in understanding before narrowing her eyes, "You get I'm not encouraging you to have feelings for my husband though, right?"

Izzie laughed and then looked back at Jo, "I see why he fell in love with you. Your sense of humor really matches his."

Jo smiled and looked at the blanket covering her torso, "Yeah that sometimes gets us in trouble."

"How so?"

Jo glanced up to meet Izzie's eyes, "Do you really want to hear about him being happy with someone else?"

Izzie sighed and sat down in the hospital chair, "Maybe it will help me sort some things out." Jo stared skeptically at the other woman who finally met her eyes, "Seriously. If you want to tell me anyways, I don't want to upset you."

Jo warily began, "Well my personal favorite was making animal noises at Dr. Yang and her man as they were...ah...getting busy."

"You didn't!" Izzie said with a surprised look on her face.

Jo laughed merrily, "We so did. More than once actually. Not that it really seemed to bother Yang, but we had fun." Jo looked back at Izzie, who was still snickering. "Okay your turn."

"What?" Izzie asked surprised.

"Come on, sharing is caring," Jo said her voice overly sweet in a playful manner. "Most fun you had with Alex, or something really funny." Izzie didn't respond and Jo realized how cruel the request was, "I'm sorry, that was wrong, I just got carried away. You don't have to t..."

"No it's not that. I just...I can't think of anything. I know we had fun times, I just...nothing's coming to mind."

Jo nodded understandingly, "Well you both went through so much together I get why the good times might be harder to remember."

Izzie nodded slowly, "Maybe." She stared at the floor seemingly in deep thought before looking back up at Jo, "Has he gone for more tests?"

"Yeah. They want him to transfer to the rehab floor here in the hospital. I can't travel right now and he needs to start rehabilitating. They're doing some tests to see if he can be physically cleared to move up there."

"That's great. I'm glad they think he's ready for that." Izzie smiled at Jo awkwardly and began to stand, "I should go and get back to work."

Izzie was almost to the door when Jo called out again, "He knows you're here." When Izzie spun around with a shocked look on her face Jo repeated, "He knows."

"What...What did he say?"

"He doesn't want to see you. In case you're planning to accidentally run into him around x-ray or something, just know he doesn't want to see you right now."

"He told you that?" At Jo's nod Izzie hesitantly added, "Okay."

Jo took a deep breath, "You're probably thinking I'm lying. I'm not, I actually offered to arrange for you to visit him." Izzie looked surprised at this and Jo added, "If he wants to see you, that's fine with me. I'll stand by whatever he decides to do and right now he doesn't want to see you. And you're probably thinking 'well of course he told his wife that,' but I know Alex and I know when he's serious and when not to push him on something and this is one of those times. I'm sorry."

Izzie looked to the ceiling as she licked her lips and pursed them in deep thought, "He sometimes has trouble voicing what he's really thinking..."

"Not about this," Jo stated firmly. "And he's changed since you knew him. Hell he's changed a lot since I first met him. He talks about his feelings a good bit now."

Izzie laughed nervously, "People don't change that much."

Jo tried to hide her frustrations, "Would it surprise you that he fell in love with me before having ever even kissed me? That he told Dr. Yang he loved me before he told anyone else including me? That we were together as a couple for a week before we had sex and even then I pretty much had to beg him for it? That he was the first to bring up forever and marriage and babies? Does that sound like the man you knew?"

Izzie looked surprised at this and mumbled, "No, no it doesn't."

Jo softened a little, "I'm sorry, I just want you to understand. I'm not keeping him from you. He's doing that. And he's been very clear about not wanting to see you so please, don't seek him out and make me kick your ass for upsetting him because I was really starting to like you."

Izzie laughed softly, "You're not so bad either."